Planning and Scheduling Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, review and maintain integrated master schedules for dam O&M projects and related program activities.
• Review contractors’ baseline schedules, detailed work programs, maintenance schedules and schedule updates.
• Confirm that submitted schedules reflect contractual requirements, approved scope, key milestones and delivery priorities.
• Establish work breakdown structures, activity coding, calendars, logical relationships, milestones and schedule-control procedures.
• Integrate civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, instrumentation, inspection and maintenance activities into coordinated schedules.
• Monitor progress against approved baseline and current schedules.
• Measure actual progress using approved progress-measurement methods and supporting records.
• Analyze planned-versus-actual performance, critical paths, float consumption and schedule trends.
• Identify variances, emerging delays, sequencing conflicts, resource constraints and potential milestone impacts.
• Prepare schedule forecasts and estimate future resource, equipment, material and delivery requirements.
• Coordinate maintenance work schedules with operations teams, contractors, consultants and relevant stakeholders.
• Support the scheduling of preventive, predictive, corrective and emergency maintenance activities.
• Coordinate work windows, shutdowns, equipment isolation and return-to-service requirements with operational teams.
• Maintain short-term, medium-term and long-term schedules, including weekly and monthly look-ahead plans.
• Review contractors’ manpower and equipment deployment against planned requirements.
• Assess the time impact of scope changes, variations, claims, delayed approvals and other project events.
• Support delay analysis and provide factual schedule information for contractual and management reviews.
• Recommend corrective actions, schedule-recovery measures and revised sequencing where required.
• Review recovery schedules and monitor the implementation and effectiveness of approved recovery plans.
• Maintain schedule assumptions, constraints, progress records, productivity data and supporting documentation.
• Develop schedule dashboards, progress curves, milestone trackers and management-reporting tools.
• Calculate and report planning and scheduling KPIs, including progress variance, milestone performance, schedule adherence and forecast completion.
• Reconcile schedule information with SAP maintenance plans, work orders and other project-control systems.
• Support risk reviews by identifying schedule risks, assessing potential impacts and monitoring mitigation actions.
• Participate in progress meetings, planning workshops, schedule reviews and coordination sessions.
• Work within a 60-month national program supporting the operation, maintenance, quality improvement and risk reduction of approximately 574 dams across Saudi Arabia.
• Prepare clear daily, weekly, monthly, annual and technical reports as required by the assignment.
• Coordinate with government stakeholders, consultants, contractors and multidisciplinary teams.
• Attend meetings, inspections and site visits anywhere in Saudi Arabia as required.
• Comply with Saudi laws, applicable codes, Client procedures, quality requirements and occupational health and safety obligations.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or an equivalent discipline from a recognized university.
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience in planning and scheduling, including project-planning responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience developing, updating and analyzing baseline, master, detailed and recovery schedules.
• Strong practical capability in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office and SAP maintenance scheduling.
• Experience measuring progress, analyzing schedule variance and preparing completion forecasts.
• Knowledge of critical-path analysis, resource loading, schedule logic, progress curves and look-ahead planning.
• Experience coordinating schedules across contractors, consultants, operations teams and multidisciplinary engineering functions.
• Understanding of preventive, corrective and emergency maintenance planning.
• Strong data-analysis, technical-reporting and stakeholder-coordination skills.
• Relevant experience must be supported by verifiable employment records, project references, reports or studies when requested.